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ROSETTES AND TRIGLYPHS NOW EXECUTED IN FLAT 877
of this old relief pattern to a slightly later date, at Knossos corresponding
wjth the initial stage of the Palace as restored towards 1500 B.C., and
corresponding in the ceramic department with L. M. I b.
The purple gypsum relief bands with their rosettes and triglyphs, so
characteristic of entrance portals throughout the M. M. Ill Period, were
Flat
versions
of such
painted
designs at
Knossos
referred
to L.M.
Palace.
VEN £TI ArJ R£D
Yellow.
Fig. 8CS. Conventional ' Buds ' on Border Bands of ' Palmette' Friezes :
a. Tiryns, b. Knossos.
also now replaced by similar friezes painted on the flat. A conspicuous
instance of this was supplied by the fine painted rosettes with bright red,
black, and orange colouring that came to light on the latest Palatial level in
the central space of the South Propylaeum,1 reflecting, as already observed,
the noble relief band that had decorated the great Entrance Hall in its
earliest form.2
A great use of spiral and rosette bands in a simple style is observable
on the Avails of the basement halls and passages of the ' Domestic Quarter '.
On the other hand, the spiral and rosette pattern on the neck of the Griffin
from the ' Room of the Throne', reproduced below,3 shows that such designs
continued to be finely executed in the latest Palatial epoch (L. M. II).
To these examples may be added the specimen already illustrated, that
was brought to light beneath the superficial layer in the Eastern light-well
of the ' Hall of the Double Axes'i and which seems originally to have found
a place in the Hall above it. These spiraliform friezes with their ' rosettes'
and decorative sprays derived from lotus and papyrus had found their
original place above relatively high dadoes consisting of gypsum slabbing.
1 P. ofM., ii, pt. n, p. 7o4.
The allied triglyph and half-rosette band
of the North-West Entrance system seems to
have been part of the Palace as restored at the
time of the 'Great Rebuilding', and may, as
suggested (see above, p. 226), have survived
through the last Palatial Age.
3 See below, p. 91 r, Fig. 884.
< I'. o/M., iii, p. 295, Fig. 193.
of this old relief pattern to a slightly later date, at Knossos corresponding
wjth the initial stage of the Palace as restored towards 1500 B.C., and
corresponding in the ceramic department with L. M. I b.
The purple gypsum relief bands with their rosettes and triglyphs, so
characteristic of entrance portals throughout the M. M. Ill Period, were
Flat
versions
of such
painted
designs at
Knossos
referred
to L.M.
Palace.
VEN £TI ArJ R£D
Yellow.
Fig. 8CS. Conventional ' Buds ' on Border Bands of ' Palmette' Friezes :
a. Tiryns, b. Knossos.
also now replaced by similar friezes painted on the flat. A conspicuous
instance of this was supplied by the fine painted rosettes with bright red,
black, and orange colouring that came to light on the latest Palatial level in
the central space of the South Propylaeum,1 reflecting, as already observed,
the noble relief band that had decorated the great Entrance Hall in its
earliest form.2
A great use of spiral and rosette bands in a simple style is observable
on the Avails of the basement halls and passages of the ' Domestic Quarter '.
On the other hand, the spiral and rosette pattern on the neck of the Griffin
from the ' Room of the Throne', reproduced below,3 shows that such designs
continued to be finely executed in the latest Palatial epoch (L. M. II).
To these examples may be added the specimen already illustrated, that
was brought to light beneath the superficial layer in the Eastern light-well
of the ' Hall of the Double Axes'i and which seems originally to have found
a place in the Hall above it. These spiraliform friezes with their ' rosettes'
and decorative sprays derived from lotus and papyrus had found their
original place above relatively high dadoes consisting of gypsum slabbing.
1 P. ofM., ii, pt. n, p. 7o4.
The allied triglyph and half-rosette band
of the North-West Entrance system seems to
have been part of the Palace as restored at the
time of the 'Great Rebuilding', and may, as
suggested (see above, p. 226), have survived
through the last Palatial Age.
3 See below, p. 91 r, Fig. 884.
< I'. o/M., iii, p. 295, Fig. 193.